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“A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.”

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Norma Fox Mazer was an American author known for her works in children's and young adult literature. Her books often tackle social and moral issues, resonating with readers of all ages. more

“We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.”

World Feels Writing Moments Able Speak Loses Teach Records Fire Our Lives Journey Awareness Color Taste Lonely Our World Labyrinth Shrinking Awareness Of Life

Author:Anais Nin

“The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.”

Writing Mystery Appeals Investigation

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.”

Want Two Book Thousand Hundred Clubs Fifty Old Lady Book Club

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.”

Knows Writing Done Play Light Know How Stage Theater Woods Nails Canvas

Book:Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

Source: Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book

“I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Natural Worry Sea Periods Flow Rivers Precise Grammar Spelling Punctuation

Author:Mary O'Neill

“A plot is two dogs and one bone.”

Two Dog Bones Plot Two Dogs

Book:Secrets of successful fiction

Source: Secrets of successful fiction

“A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.”

Writing Cameras Pens Good Writers

Author:Robert Newton Peck

“Poetry is that which is lost in translation.”

Lost Poetry Is Translations Lost In Translation

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.”

Wells May Choices Next Views Effects Design Concerned Impression Construction

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

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